#scambaiting au

[starchbean]

SVSSS Modern AU

Shen Yuan is an up-and-coming scambaiter with a growing Youtube audience. It's his way of giving back to society while being a terminally online shut-in, and he loves roasting a woefully transparent advanced fee scheme and so on. His scambaiting email address is Peerlesscucumber@(domain).com. The primary fake identity he portrays to scammers is Shen Qingqiu: a vain, short-tempered old man who can be mean but is primarily driven by loneliness.

At present, he has a scammer on the hook calling himself Zheng Yang - supposedly the barrister of a dying widow who has chosen Shen Yuan as the beneficiary to receive her "$28 million USD Dollars." He's having a great time stringing this guy along with inane questions, made up words, fake issues, discussions of legality, etc etc.

What he doesn't know is that "Zheng Yang" is Luo Binghe, a young man who has turned to a life of internet scamming to pay for his washerwoman mother's medical treatments and livelihood. His mother is an undocumented immigrant, and since Luo Binghe couldn't turn to legal means to help her, he turned to the means that were available, joining a syndicate of experienced online scammers called Demon Realm.

Zheng Yang answers all of Shen Yuan's questions about the widow and the fund with incredible patience and detail. Shen Yuan hadn't originally intended to have any voice communications with the scammers, but eventually does chat with Zheng Yang over Whatsapp with the help of a high quality voice changer.

This scammer... while he's very unorthodox, Shen Yuan has to admit he has a certain skill for tugging on the heartstrings of would-be victims. Many times he almost just caved and bought the 2 $100 Steam gift cards the scammer is asking for before remembering himself. He really... enjoys talking to Zheng Yang. Even if their communication is all lies on both sides, Shen Yuan knows that there are certain aspects of the character he's playing that are true to life, and he wonders if that could be the case for Zheng Yang too. He has too much personality for it to all be fake. Even as an act, it's clear to see that Zheng Yang is incredibly intelligent. In another life, he might have been a real barrister. Usually he looks forward to the end of a long scambaiting session when the scammer realizes they've been taken for a ride and he gets to thoroughly verbally trash them for being a lowlife. He... finds himself not wanting the shoe to drop. He wishes he could prolong his conversation with Zheng Yang forever. Maybe he could make more burner email accounts and get this same scammer to come after him again?

Meanwhile, people in his online scambaiting circles are talking about a new prolific scam from a Demon Realm employee known as Xin Mo, who tricks women into taking sexy photos of themselves which they later use to scam victims in romance scams. All the other scam baiters really want to get a piece of this guy, but Shen Yuan is content just talking to Zheng Yang even if it doesn't bring in the big viewer numbers anymore.

Until Xin Mo is arrested, and it's the exact day that Zheng Yang stops answering his emails.

"This is crazy..." Shen Yuan is muttering to himself as he's on the way to the jail where Xin Mo--Zheng Yang? Apparently, real name Luo Binghe--is being held and can't afford bail. He takes a deep breath, but keeps going. He's got plenty in his account to spare, so this is really nothing. And besides, some of the revenue from the videos he made about Zheng Yang really should go to him, right? He hasn't told anyone where he's going. He could stop and mention it to Liu Qingge or Yue Qingyuan, at least, but he doesn't. "I've absolutely lost it."

((Feel free to write this if you're so inspired!))

[code-dy]

Y'know what

Han Yoojin as a scam baiting vlogger, Sung Hyunjae as the managing director of a well-known Cybersecurity firm and Song Taewon as the overworked+underpaid head of the cybercrimes division of the Korea Central Intelligence Agency

[callcentermaschen]

Hey Leute! 👋 Heute möchte ich über etwas sprechen, das mir als YouTuber immer wieder begegnet: Dislikes auf meinem Kanal CallcenterMaschen. Ja, es ist wahr, auch ich habe Zuschauer, die meinem Content einen Daumen nach unten geben.

Zunächst einmal möchte ich sagen, dass Dislikes ein Teil des Spiels sind. Als Content Creator ist es unmöglich, es jedem Zuschauer recht zu machen. Jeder hat unterschiedliche Vorlieben und Meinungen, und das ist völlig in Ordnung.

Natürlich kann es frustrierend sein, wenn man sieht, dass jemand den eigenen Content nicht mag. Es ist menschlich, sich darüber Gedanken zu machen. Aber ich versuche, es nicht persönlich zu nehmen. Es gibt viele Gründe, warum jemand einen Dislike geben könnte. Es könnte sein, dass der Zuschauer mit dem Thema nicht vertraut ist, unterschiedliche Erwartungen hatte oder einfach einen schlechten Tag hatte.

Dislikes können auch Feedback sein. Obwohl es schön ist, positive Kommentare und Likes zu erhalten, können Dislikes mir helfen, meinen Content zu verbessern. Ich versuche, konstruktive Kritik aus ihnen zu ziehen und zu sehen, ob es Bereiche gibt, in denen ich mich verbessern kann.

Am wichtigsten ist es, sich auf die positiven Aspekte zu konzentrieren. Es gibt viele Zuschauer, die meinen Content genießen und mir durch Likes, Kommentare und Unterstützung zeigen, dass ich auf dem richtigen Weg bin. Ihnen gilt mein Dank und meine Aufmerksamkeit.

Also, liebe Zuschauer, die meinem Kanal einen Dislike geben: Ich nehme es zur Kenntnis, respektiere eure Meinung und werde weiterhin mein Bestes geben, um Content zu liefern, der unterhaltsam, informativ und interessant ist. Lasst uns gemeinsam wachsen und lernen, denn letztendlich geht es darum, eine Community aufzubauen und Inhalte zu teilen, die uns verbinden. Danke an alle, die mich unterstützen! 🙏💙

#CallcenterMaschen #YouTuber #Dislikes #Feedback #Community

[an-organized-confusion]

So, a tangent about scambaiters led me and the co-conspirator to think about Gymrat!AU shenanigans again:

Me: i can see gymrat!remus loving scambaiters like Jim [Browning] oh geez now given the fact gymrat!ro's not the most tech literate... he winds up getting wrapped in some of these scams ... which is p funny since he works/ed at a call center (more legit sorta solicitor type of gig, or taking in phone orders, than scaring people into forking over money via sus means)

Him: Roman: "Great, but I'm going to need you to tell me exactly what you want me to do. I haven't quite worked out how to use anything fancier than the Hasbro children's computer." Scammer: "sir are you trolling me?" Roman: "no, I've never had a role as a troll. Though i almost got to play the bridge troll in our class play in 5th grade. But then i got sidelined as rock number 4."

Me: (i kinda love the idea of ro accidentally scambaiting)

Him: Roman: "Hold on, let me hand you off to my husbando. He's much better at understanding this technobabble stuff. Jannie! Our bank is calling. They said we're overdrafted again." [Janus is rolling on the floor laughing.]

Me: (also think ro really depends on lotsa notes tacked all over his cubicle to just use the the call center's comp sys. for codes and data entry and shit - the absolute basics.)

Him: Janus, gets up, puts on a serious face: "listen, I've got good news and bad news for you, bank representative. I know for a fact roman can't even access his own bank account without me holding his hand through the process. That's the bad news. The good news is I don't intend to do anything about your attempts to financially and emotionally harm my fucktoy. Now here's some bonus free worse news: my fucktoy’s sibling is highly protective of their sibling and will trace back any call on their phone that lasts longer than 8 minutes. Which according to this call log has been going for 16 minutes now. Your location has already been ascertained and retribution is on its way.” roman blushing at being referred to as fucktoy: "jannieeee, not in front of the bank guy!"

[Remus meanwhile has quietly uploaded over 300 custom made viruses to the mainframe of the call center. Which are now in the process of filling every portion of available space with the most egregious borderline illegal porn in the world and then displaying it to every computer connected to it.]

Me: pffft... nested to hell-and-back redirects to get to those feeds

Him: Rewriting server permissions to assign admin to null Rewriting read permissions to all Redirects the porn into their email stack The very much illegal ones...

Me: (i'm also picturing lo offers a huge helping hand in this too) (since whilst i think Remus has a p good bedrock w/ software.. he's still more adept w/ hardware issues)

Him: Most of this is Logan’s work Remus just gave him the ideas And Remus was shocked at how very vindictive Logan was getting "They got my nan a few weeks ago."

[ccorinthian]

better call caul AU where saul becomes a scambaiter bc he knows all the tricks and is terrific at playing characters and improvising

[kiebs]

#shj trying to recruit hyj and hyj thinking it was a scam and put shj on hold for more than 4hrs#hyj being apprehended by stw because while scambaiting is not technically illegal#hacking the scammer's computer while broadcasting it online is toeing the line of legality#shj messing with stw by hacking the kcia website and calling it /free sporadic penetration testing/#stw not able to retaliate because the previous head did sign an agreement with shj to toughen up their system#and oh look there's a comprehensive report on framework vulnerabilities on his desk at the end of the day#is this just an excuse to have a hacker!hyj au? why yes yes it is

Y'know what

Han Yoojin as a scam baiting vlogger, Sung Hyunjae as the managing director of a well-known Cybersecurity firm and Song Taewon as the overworked+underpaid head of the cybercrimes division of the Korea Central Intelligence Agency